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Smiley goes back to his old home town a something rather ghoulish about revisiting your old home town after fort odd and giving a speech about what it was like to grow tip there fortyodd years ago The people don know what you re talking about The people your own age are either deaf or dead and don t know what you re talking about either Well that was a recent experience I was asked to speak at a Chamber of Commerce dinner in Perth where I was reared after a fashion Special theme of the evening was the celebration of birthday of the Perth Courier the second oldest weekly news paper in Canada Perth down in Eastern Ontario was a culture and class inch and when Ottawa was a brawling lumbertown and Toronto was Muddy York My speech wa the ideal moment for a and plain old bullroar I successful 1 avoided all three as is my wont I just told the truth as always And as always I received a standing ovation The standing ovation used to be a rare and heartfelt response in which a politician promised new roads new docks or a new post office has become as emotional as a good sneeze It is now a chance for people to get off their bums up from those hard chairs borrowed from the funeral director on which have squatted for two hours or so and stretch their arthritic It also signals the end for hose who fallen asleep con hear the of relief welling beneath the handchapping I didn praise the Chamber of Com merce In fact I stuck a needle into them As a former weekly know all about the Chamber of Commerce in another town Wo monthly if we could get a quorum there were four of us I guess hat was a quorum the dent two dragged out of the pub or off the curling rink and me as reporter Talk of new industries new approaches to tourism and a general upgrading from the parking meters floated through the air for two hours then wed all go happily home for another month This one was a little different The of finals inlkfd in hundreds of thousands of dollars mostly government prints where used to talk about the impossibility of raising for a tourist information booth At any rate the Perth Chamber gracious and exceedingly generous I think A also needled the publisher of the Perth Courier but rather gently I been over that route and publishers get the needle from readers so regularly that they barely eel it except when it goes to the bone or the heart which it does every time What shook me was how old a lot of feeling a ripe old twentyeight and these ancients came shuffling up and saying Hey Bill the time we My only resort was to say Hoor you When I found out 1 was mortified great strapping chap stuck out his hand and said Bill I responded you He just said Roy confronted and recognizing a first cousin I hsdn seen since 1945 he just out of the navy I just out of the air force having a couple of beers together We t seen each other or exchanged so much as a card since A few other faces emerged from the bald heads and lined faces Cam Chaplin a rawboned dairy farmer who tackled in football like a brick wall hitting a heap of marshmallows Jack Scott another boy of the same ilk Kay sister of my old college roommate and her brother a widower with six children who married a widow with four and who grasped me earnestly by the lapels and told me I should consider marrying again Aside from a few It was a family reunion My big sister dammer who instigated the whole affair put me up for three days and tried to force feed me Her son Pete an Air Canada captain just to drift up from Montreal and his little sister Heather took a jaunt down from Pembroke I used to babysit them My little sister a nurse drove with her husband some whitehaired called Jack with whom d played football forty years ago floated in from Brockville We had quite a time swapping lies and figuring out who was dead who had a stroke who was divorced and why Well probably not ever be together again until the day my ashes arrive in an urn Something unusual and very moving for me occurred at the dinner told that on elderly gentleman or as some put it an old man had been waiting outside wanting to see A bit bewildered I told them to have him come in And 1 finally nailed the old devil who have been writing me for years signing himself at first Your TV Repair man and later over the years just knew he lived in Ont but couldht answer his blunt and caustic comments his kind and encouraging notes his sensitive letter when wife And there he was He come in to dinner He had to drive home in the dark at over years He d come all that way just to say hello Smiley He gave me a gift which I though might be a chamber pot with his sense or humor neatly wrapped turned out to be a beautifully hand wrought wooden bowl which I shall treasure More about him later WEDKtVEYOUBAPPK holiday GEORGETOWN 877 5266 ACTON 8532219 You may now charge your classified advertisement to your Charge Account Ask for details PARK GeorgetownActon Wednesday LINCOLN HOT WEST GEORGETOWN SCRV1CE LEASING 8772261 Check Your Ada For Accuracy On Tha First Insertion The Georgetown Independent and ha Acton Free Praia cannot be responsible for the cost I mora than one Incorroct Insertion Any nor In the Clou Had Sections should bo to attention tha Classified Department after tha first Insertion Adjuit menu bis ma da to the actor reduced valua of the ad Call 877 or 9ajm Monday to Friday IITTON del daughter Tyrol on May 199 at Peterborough civ Hospital COOK Robert and Won arc happy to on ince the birth or the first child Emily Christina on May WW 55 weighing bs on Proud grandparents arc Clifford Dorothy Cook Helm and Ann- Doth of Georgetown Groat grandchild or of West Germany pedal thank to Or McGregor Or the OB staff G and Hospital Owen OSBORNE Mark and arc tickled pink the long awaited arrival of Sarah Anne on April 1984 at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital we In at lbs A sister for David Tammy Angela and Trevor Proud grand parents are Frank ana Jean and May Osborne TAIT Ken and rlcy nee Stacey arc pleased to announce the arrival their twin daughters sisters lor Joshua Jenn fer Leigh lbs and Amy Mel lbs May la 19B4 at p and 34 af Georgetown and strict al Hospital Special thanks to Or Ford Or Landry and the OB staff and Rhonda nee Murphy proud announce the safe arrival of their Brett Michael born May at a m weighing lbs Excited no grandparents are Mr and Mrs Howard Murphy and Mr and Mrs Spec thanks Kumar Ashcnhurst end the OB stall at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital WILLIAMS John and Sandra nee Eyre are eased to announce the safe arrival of their Bantam John on May 8 grandparent a Norman and Audrey Eyre of Georgetown and II and Ida Will ami of Whitehaven England Thanks TranlandDr n KB coming MR AND MRS Jack would to announce Iho of the daughter Karen to Andrew Beer son Mr end Mrs Fred Beer Georgetown Wed ding to take place Saturday May at 3 p In Ihc Christian Reformed Church Trafalgar Rd MR AND MRS George E Georgetown are pleased to announce the forth Com marriage of their eldest daughter Rebecca Lillian to Richard John Vender son Theresa and the late John Vender Vlugt of Erin Wedding to take place on Saturday St Jean Brebeuf Church in Erin IS Marian Jme Josephine on Sunday May at the Memorial Brampton Marian Georgetown beloved George Pellet and lov and bom of Georgetown and grandmother to and cent Rested the J Jones and Son a Wednesday afternoon at Interment Greenwood cemetery In memory con ul the Can ad an Cancer Society would appreciated SMITH Norman peacefully on Thursday May Georgetown and District Memorial Norm In beloved husband of Margaret and lov lather of Pauline Moore David Windsor Cathy Doddidt Acton and Norma Hancock Of Glen Williams Loving grandfather teen grandchildren and live great grand en Idreo Alio surv ved by five listers and one Pasting at J Jones and Son Funeral Home Ed SI Georgetown where funeral and committal service was held Saturday morning at clock Cremator followed In memory ons to Georgetown and sir Memorial Foundation would be appreciated THOMPSON Suddenly at her home Tuesday May In her year Wile the late Harry Thompson and her first husband the late Ross Burt Dew sister of of Act on and me late Free and Kerb and Mary Parker Dear aunt of Los McLean and Earl Masai Funeral service was held Shoemaker Funeral Home Aden on Friday at loop Interment Fair view Cemetery J BEXTON A red iewol at St Joseph on day May 1984 Donald In his year beloved husband of Mary trior of R Dear lather of Jane of R R Anne of East El Mrs Ken Henderson of and Mary Mrs Doug Draper of R R Dear Other of Reg of London and Jack of and the late Mrs son of Port Credit also by our grand cti Idrcn Rested at the and Son Funent Home Dub North Funeral was held on Monday May to Potor Church Oustlc lor Mass Cemetery Oust St Ol Elaine Al St Joseph on Thursday May 17 19B4 Olive Elaine the late Elmer Arthur Hall Dear mother of Melody and Howard Halt both of and Robin Cooper Loving grandmother of Paul Cooper Evelyn Chester and Thomas Hall Florence Armrneila Jeffrey and Pearl of Nova Scotia Rested at the Shoemaker Funeral Home Aclon Funeral service was held at the Acton Baptist Church on Saturday May 1 m Interment Cemetery A LONG John W Past Master Lodge no GRC Past pal Chapter RAM no Past Grand Well Saturday May 1984 at Georgetown and sir Memorial Hospital John Long of Georgetown beloved husband of Marie and dear father Yvonne Mrs Don Connaly of Gall Mrs Haren Sherry of Lovingly by s grandchildren Elton John Scott Wendy M and Cydney ved by Tom and late Waller Rested at J S Jones and Son Funeral Home where funeral service was held Wednesday morning at 11 Interment Greenwood cemetery Masonic service was held Tuesday oven no In memory but to the an Cancer Society would bo MURRAY John Howard I Jack Camb dan Bay formerly fo Port Hope Brampton Toro to Mammal Now pod Beach Co and Palm at Ye lowkn on Sunday May father of Gordon of Acton Oavid of and grandfather An of Acton fomly funeral bo hold n Acton lo but 10 the Canada Cancer Canadian Heart on bo 1 Cards Thanks FRED La ng and family w sh to thank roiat ves ends and no ghbours for all their help our lire and A very special thanks Jean and Kerw and Willy George Kim and Red L Rene Paul Forbes Helen and Don Robertson for g us a place to stay Thanks to Lome Norton for the time work and Lois for work for me Thanks Paul Forbes for s bravery and quick th nk to use garden hose and Mil Robertson lor helping him To all you great people thanks aga The La ng family thank all my friends who took good of I was Your prayers love cards flowers phone calls gilts and sits arc very much Many thanks and May God Bless each and everyone you Love Hodgson THANKS to lor ng a s and neigh EI In Mamorfams COLE memory our dear Father Mother Grandparents and Great Grand parents Elton Cole who passed away May Cole June They us The thoughts unknown Bui left us the We are proud own So treasure them Lord For when on earth They were two of the best Always remembered and sadly missed by Lena Doug Mason Wayne Gloria Lisa Shelley Mason Jim Ann and Mar WRIGHT Carolyn Joan Joey In memory of dear wife mother and grand mother who passed away May Fondly remembered by Peter Carolyn Nancy Matthew and Andrew IT PUCKERING John In loving memory of a dear lather and grondod who passed away May A word brings to mind A big warm smile a helping a way of being on to the family A word patience too Is such a special Because It stands for you Sadly missed by daughter dell son in law PUCKERING John In loving memory my dear husband who departed tile May Memories ore treasures Death brings heartache No one can heal But 1 II remember you No mailer how long Sadly sscd and ngly rer by his Bessie In loving memory of a dear mother and grandmother Alice Louisa who passed away May 39 1979 Not lust this day but every day remem most by those Steven May 34 Though his smile Is gone Sadly sscd by his wife Helen and children Gordon and Susan Hamilton Marg and Sam Lcitch Marlon and Ken Faulkner and dad who passed away May a Aug No length of lime can take away My thoughts of you to day remem by daughter Anne PERKINS In loving memory of a dear mother grandmolher who passed away May 1977 s month comes back with sad regret brings back a day we never forgot You fell asleep without a goodbye The tears we shed will w away But ache In our hearts will always stay Lovingly remembered by Karen Bob Todd Colleen Ken JasonandNlkl PERKINS In loving memory of a dear mother and grandmother who passed away May In all world wc shall not find A heart so wonderfully kind So soil a voice so sweet a smile A sympathy so sure so deep A love so beautiful to keep Lov ngly remembered by Kevin Sharon Sarah and Michael PICKET Dorothy In loving memory Ota dear mother who passed away May 34 Time cannot sleal the treasures Nor ever dim the shining thoughts Our shed Imparts And memories of the one we loved St cast the r gentle glow To grace our days and light our palhi may go Always remembered by Doris Allan Coming EBnl SNRGRQVE FARM HIS MARKET Trafalgar Village Craft Flea Market i25CrauAw0lNift Every Sunday 10 pm YOU ARE invited to snare in the of the Anniversary of ma Eden MINI Presbyterian Church on May at a A service of worship and special music It be led by guest minister Rev Gerald Remte Afimof follow Coming Events EUCHRE Friday May Memorial Hall Admission and sponsored by Llmehouse Everyone wekoi MAPLE Cooperative Nursery School has Mm ted spaces for September 1984 We offer morning or afternoon classes In a three or five day program For further Informat on call Susan registrar Sin ANNUAL Box Plant and Perennial Sale Friday May 35 Saturday May at Jakes Garage 89 SI Proceeds to Toronto District Chrlsllan High School Starts al a Georgetown beautiful UNION Church sary Guest speaker Rev w Join us In worship II a day May 32nd and Churchill ACTON Tennis Club Opening Sunday May 37ih Bring your Refreshments available Everyone welcome BEAUTIFUL YOU with Colours and Scar Monday June 4 Georgetown Public Library program will feature Colours lor all Seasons with Leslie Smith the Colour Patetle Burlington Ontario and Lorraine Hammetl designer and author The Knaughty Look will demonstrate the beauty of scarves and scarf tying Door Tickets S3 per person available from Teller Cage and Acton and Georgetown L rles Erin Beet Dinner Saturday May Seating SIS children Phone Marl Ph Hippo eats Ticket available by chance church doors CHICKEN BBQ Norval United Church Moy3e 48pm at Public School Road West off Road Featuring homemade salads and pies Chicken cooked on premises Entertainment Advance adults chll adults si S3 Tickets at gate COMPUTER Day Camp is able lo cut expenses through unexpected purchase arrangements and Is passing the saving on to you Now week all inclusive lee for filled of I computer programming instruction and practice and hiking etc Proven successful method allows youngsters quickly learn the basic language on IBM Commodore Apple Alar I or TRS own ralo with Individual attention One computer per youngster classes of ten moKlmum Beginners to advanced levels available In our high quality courses In July and August Our computer won The I Award Excellence Assistance with transportation and receipt lor Income Tax provided Adult evening usage and speclol shoppers comparison short courses also Coll Rockwood Co School information Centre for a form lor ACTORS FOR TV TV Soundslago a now now tor Special TV Studio to TV SotloaTV Movies Part imo All age For you call dull THE SALVATION ARMY pickup Of appliances In working order and good used Phone Tuesday to Saturday am for arrangements rVEDDING Flowers fresh and silk rentals hurch flowers centrepieces shower available from the Blossom Basket BS3 1394 Laurie Cook IB AUCTION SALE BRAMPTON LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE IMC NOMTH OF BRAMPTON ON MO ATBMELOROVE TUESDAY EVENHtQ MAY291N4 Yamaha Organ walnut pea bedroom turn cream pee task bedroom sun pee bedroom tst Admiral frig Ibfca new Admiral dryer Speed Queen wathat pee kitchen u dining room table and 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